Breeze Airways Reports First Quarterly Operating Profit... Finally!

Breeze is turning a profit by hiking fares on their flights, which is understood, but is now misaligned with the quality of the ground experience, and the route map. Used to go an airport further away to be one of the more frequent breeze customers and enjoy their front of cabin experience, however the extra driving simply isn’t worth it if I am paying almost identical to a big three carrier that have an actual regular check in that doesn’t take over an hour at times. For me to continue flying with them at current service quality, prices for front of cabin have to go down 5-10% and has to be true point to point flying (Where is LAN-SFO Breeze?)

Breeze has some fairly interesting routes, serving underserved (yet desirable) airports. Personally, I want to see them do well because I like what they do - leisure routes served with comfort. Lots of northeast/Florida, but their route map is more varied than, say, JetBlue. Their biggest competitor in some markets seems to be Avelo. They don't go head to head with the big guys on top business routes (NEC, LAX-SFO, ORD-LGA, etc), which is wise.

Personally, I don't think that Jetblue is in a position to buy anyone at the moment. They could fit in with Delta, though the routes would be of limited value to DL, so they'd just be looking at the A220s and pilots if that happened. I hope it doesn't. The last thing we need is more consolidation where it is not needed.

Not sure what Delta or even JetBlue would gain by buying Breeze outside of airplanes - which is a poor reason to buy an airline anyway. Again, if you want consolidation that could actually be disruptive, it needs to come in the form of these smaller competitors getting bigger - Avelo and Breeze merging, Frontier buying both, etc.

Still needs to develop consistency and reliability.
I live near one of their focus airports. I've seen service to LAX and PBI come and go before I could make a reservation. The remaining destinations are of no value. Also, frequency is mostly 2X per week, maybe 3X if you are lucky. And many flights are at the crack of dawn or way, way late in the evening.
I'll pay the extra $2 and take my chances on the Big Four.

We flew Breeze between Christmas and New Years from Tampa to Bangor... (don't ask....) and the service up and back was real un-even. Like two different airlines. Not BAD but not real outstanding either, I wish them well, Love the A220 but a consistent product I think is very important.

"Not sure what Delta or even JetBlue would gain by buying Breeze outside of airplanes"

Easy answer. Trained pilots. They're even harder to get right now, than some aircraft.